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unusual facts about Edwin L. Mechem


Mechem

Edwin L. Mechem, Governor of New Mexico 1951-1955, 1957-1959, and 1961-1962, United States Senator from New Mexico 1962 to 1964.


C. D. Atkins

With Edwin L. Moore and Louis G. MacDowell in the 1940s, he helped develop a new process for making concentrated orange juice.

Cromwell Dixon

His achievement earned him $10,000, presented to him by Governor Edwin L. Norris.

Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park

Originally called Sugar Pine Point State Park, its name was changed in 2003 to honor Edwin L. Z'berg, a California state assemblyman who specialized in environmental legislation and worked to develop state parks and other natural areas.

Edwin L. Moore

With Louis G. MacDowell and C. D. Atkins in the 1940s, he helped develop a new process for making concentrated orange juice.

Fighting Man of the Plains

Fighting Man of the Plains is a 1949 film directed by Edwin L. Marin.

Louis G. MacDowell

With Edwin L. Moore and C. D. Atkins in the 1940s, he helped develop a new process for making concentrated orange juice.

Ludwig Meyn

In the spring of 1856, Meyn began with simple hand tools, the first drilling for oil in Dithmarschen, three years before Edwin L. Drake, tapped the first oil well in Pennsylvania.

Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs

While the response to both editions of the book has been generally favorable, it remains controversial among some Burroughs aficionados, particularly for Lupoff's argument that the Barsoom series was heavily influenced by Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (1905) and The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician (1890) by Edwin L. Arnold.

Stamford Hospital

After consultation with his his friend and attorney, Edwin L. Scofield (later the second mayor of Stamford), regarding possible philanthropies, he gave the initial funding for the hospital by selling some of his property.

Thomas S. Estes

In early 1938 Estes received an honorable discharge from the Marines to join the United States Foreign Service as a clerk and was assigned to the legation in Bangkok, Thailand under American Minister Edwin L. Neville and Holbrook "Chappy" Chapman.


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